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臙

cjk unified ideograph-81d9

CJK Unified Ideograph 臙

臙 almost always appears in 臙脂, read enji, meaning rouge. Alone it can also mean throat. Its story runs from Chinese safflower cosmetics to the Japanese deep-red called 臙脂色.

Text symbol
Search it as
enji · えんじ · 臙脂 · rouge · red · enjiiro
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 臙 means

The practical reading is 臙脂: rouge. Its recognisable ancestor came from the Western Regions in the 2nd century BCE as safflower rouge for coloring the face.

Japanese records list 臙脂 as paint by the 934-era Wamyōshō and as lip rouge around 1060. Korean 연지 (臙脂) likewise names cheek and forehead rouge, and later the material served medicine and craft while 臙脂色 named a deep red. 胭脂, 燕脂, 燕支, and 焉支 are connected spellings, with 胭 the Chinese form. Expect small stroke differences between fonts: this is a typed CJK glyph, not emoji artwork.

Don't confuse it with

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胭脂
Chinese spelling of the same rouge word.

Combination ideas

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rouge or face color
deep red

Questions people ask

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Why does 臙 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 臙

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 81D9, then Alt+X to get 臙.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-81d9”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 81d9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
臙
CSS
\81D9
Japanese IME
Type えんじ, convert, and pick 臙脂; keep its first character for 臙.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
臙
HTML hex
臙
CSS content
content: "\81D9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%87%99
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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